# Matthew Irvin

> Matthew Irvin is a Boulder-based professional engineer, CEO and co-founder of Maplewell Energy, where he works on predictive control software for batteries, buildings and distributed energy resources. After serving utilities through engineering roles at General Electric and Stanley Consultants, he co-created Maplewell's JANiiT platform to forecast demand, control energy assets in real time and turn flexible loads into practical grid capacity.

- **Role:** CEO and Co-founder at Maplewell Energy
- **Organizations:** Maplewell Energy, Stanley Consultants, General Electric, University of Colorado Boulder
- **Education:** University of Colorado Boulder
- **Known for:** Co-created Maplewell's optimization and predictive-control technology for peak shaving, load management and coincident-peak management., Served as lead architect on deep-learning forecasting models, cloud software architecture and edge-computing architecture., Led Maplewell's deployment of a two-site convenience-store pilot that reported a 25% reduction in peak energy use.

## Career timeline

- **2009-2010** — Attended the University of Colorado Boulder.
- **2015** — Received a Colorado Professional Engineer license and an NCEES Council Record.
- **2018** — Worked as a mechanical engineer in Stanley Consultants' Denver office and co-authored an article on power-delivery choices for Midwestern utilities.
- **2019** — Co-founded Maplewell Energy, an energy-management company based in Colorado.
- **2021** — Maplewell won the energy and utilities category in the BizWest IQ Awards and began developing JANiiT for U.S. Navy shipboard and shipyard applications.
- **2022** — Maplewell secured an exclusive license to NREL's OptGrid technology and announced a seed financing partnership with Life Bridge Capital.
- **2023** — Led Maplewell through a two-site refrigerator demand-management pilot, a virtual-power-plant partnership with Urban Electric Power and an Internet of Things Product Award.
- **2024** — Joined Intel Liftoff with Maplewell and published an argument for virtual power plants in pv magazine USA.
- **2025** — Featured in Intel's account of Maplewell's work on time-series forecasting and edge deployment.

## Achievements

- Co-created Maplewell's optimization and predictive-control technology for peak shaving, load management and coincident-peak management.
- Served as lead architect on deep-learning forecasting models, cloud software architecture and edge-computing architecture.
- Led Maplewell's deployment of a two-site convenience-store pilot that reported a 25% reduction in peak energy use.
- Secured an exclusive license for NREL's OptGrid technology for incorporation into JANiiT.
- Served as a principal investigator on Maplewell's U.S. Navy Phase II work.
- Led Maplewell during its 2021 BizWest IQ Award in energy and utilities and its 2023 Product Award in the Internet of Things category.

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Intel featured Irvin and Maplewell's use of Tiber AI Cloud and edge hardware for time-series forecasting and distributed energy management.
- **2024-09** — Published an article in pv magazine USA arguing that distributed energy resources, storage and intelligent energy management systems can expand grid capacity through virtual power plants.
- **2024-04** — Announced Maplewell's acceptance into Intel Liftoff for AI and machine-learning startups.

## Links

- Website: https://www.maplewell.energy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattjirvin
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maplewellenergy

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